LEADER 03179nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910825014703321 005 20240313162258.0 010 $a1-283-19797-9 010 $a9956-715-66-2 010 $a9786613197979 010 $a9956-715-78-6 010 $a9956-615-76-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000004303 035 $a(EBL)1135167 035 $a(OCoLC)830165769 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11257937 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477991 035 $a(PQKB)10889601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135167 035 $a(OCoLC)503441776 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135167 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333778 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL319797 035 $a(PPN)19868214X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000004303 100 $a20091203d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGod the politician /$fPeterkins Manyong 210 $aMankon, Bamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa Research & Pub. CIG$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-558-96-6 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Birth of a Political Messiah; 2. Unwise Men From The East; 3. Murdering The 'Insurgents'; 4. The Ndu Genocide; 5. Electors and Cheaters; 6. Sacrificial Lambs and Wolves; 7. Particulars of a State of Emergency; 8. Patriots and Gangsters; 9. Recollections of a Faked Coup Plot; 10. Constructional Acrobats & the Anglophone Problem; 11. Home-Bred Terrorists; 12. State Persecutors; 13. Released Terror Suspects Narrate Harrowing Tales; 14. Electoral Gymnastics & the Military Option; 15. Tribute To Machiavelli; 16. The Law of Karma 327 $a17. The Cardinal, Politicians & State Terror18. Spiritual Democracy; 19. Power and the Man; 20. Bloody Universities; 21. Hunter Hunted; 22. The Phenomenon Called Baba Danpullo; 23. A Magician at the Presidency; 24. The Role of the Church in Cameroon Politics; 25. Postscript; Back Cover 330 $aGod the Politician is a compelling analytical, critical, informed and largely eyewitness account of the major events that have taken place in Cameroon since the return of multiparty politics in the 1990's. The accession of Paul Biya to power under the one-party regime in 1982 and the attempt to overthrow him in a coup d'tat in 1984 are told in flashback, so are the excesses of power without responsibility that have come to be associated with over 25 years of Biya as President. Most of the story is centred on the struggle by the opposition, led by the Social Democratic Front (SDF), to overthrow 606 $aPolitical corruption$zCameroon 607 $aCameroon$xPolitics and government$y1982- 615 0$aPolitical corruption 676 $a967.1104/2;967.11042 700 $aManyong$b Peterkins$01713581 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825014703321 996 $aGod the politician$94106658 997 $aUNINA